Tag: Hannibal Buress

It’s the first Friday night of 2017, and Hannibal Buress is sitting in a mostly-empty green room—all that’s on a table is a bottle of Jameson and a veggie platter—inside the Las Vegas Hard Rock Hotel. He’s just performed a corporate-tailored version of his stand-up set (complete with jokes about 401k's, incredulousness over Donald Trump, and a comparison of Hillary Clinton to a crouton) at a private event in which he opened for Sting....

The mood among comedy lovers everywhere was universally lifted this morning, when Comedy Central released a video of Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer announcing that Broad City will be returning to televisions everywhere this August. The pair, who both star in and write the show, let the fans know that it's coming. "Coming in hard," as Abbi says, before Ilana echoes her sentiment, "Coming in hard and raw," as Jacobson cracks up alongside her.
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Williamsburg’s Knitting Factory is one of the busiest venues in north Brooklyn. On any given night, there’s at least five bands taking to the stage, many of which are touring. It’s up to Richard Sloven, the venue’s talent buyer, to keep the calendar up to snuff with quality acts that don’t veer off into filler territory. It’s not an easy job.
The venue is impressive. Unlike the Music Hall of Williamsburg, the front entrance of...

I'll admit it: On Sunday night, once I started to see all the images of Kanye and Prince together on stage at the Grammys, all I could think was that Hannibal Buress had been right! I had just come back from seeing Hannibal Buress perform at BAM and Buress had spoken about seeing Kanye in an airport in Minneapolis, even though Ye didn't have a show there, which could clearly only mean one thing:...